[Title: The Narrative Strategy in Representation of Ideological Conflict in Mahfud Ikhwan’s Novel Kambing dan Hujan]. This research aims at conveying narrative strategy in depicting ideological conflict between Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, and negotiations among the characters in Kambing dan Hujan novel written by Mahfud Ikhwan. The problem-discussed in this study is how the narrative strategy depicts ideological conflicts between NU and Muhammadiyah and how ideological negotiations of those characters are depicted in the novel. The theory is the theory of narrative strategy proposed by Mieke Bal (1997) and Fludernik (2009). This study uses a qualitative descriptive method. The result shows that to describe the ideological conflicts between NU and Muhammadiyah, the novel uses narrative strategies through narrator, vocalization, plots and setting. Ideological conflicts arise because there is inequality of religious practices performed by the characters appearing in the novel as a representation of both adherents of NU and Muhammadiyah. At the end, any kind of negotiation is displayed through the representation of the characters affiliated with NU and Muhammadiyah to diminish the ideological conflict between them.